The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-11

Southern Ohio lately and the Ohio river is
rising slowly but surely.
THE difficulty between the Stevedorcs'
Association and the firm Of Lear & Con-
zales at Pensacola has been adjusted, the
firm paying to the association $500 to COM
pensatc the men for the loss of time, and
agreeing to hereafter conform to the rules
and requirements of the labor organiza-
tons.
A DISPATCH from Carthage, Tenn, of the
Sd said that Chestnut Mound, ten miles
above there had been visited by water
spout, which carried death and destruc-
ton in its wake and almost ruined that sec
ton of the country.
A SPECIAL from Raleigh, n. c., stated
that DIR. Wilcox, q leading Republican, and
John Baker, leading Democrat, recently
met and agreed to settle their difficulties,
caused by the campaign last fall, by step
ping of fifteen PAGES and shooting at one
another. Baker was MORALLY wounded.
GENERAL.
The British Government has granted a
subsidy to the White Star Steamship Com
pany for the use Of the steamers of that
line as armed transports in the event Of
war. The agreement includes stipulation
that the White Star Company shall build
several fast vessels in accordance with de-
signs furnished by the Admiralty.
THE Knights of Labor have offered re
ward of $500 for the detection of the person
or persons who attempted to destroy the
Old Dominion steamer Guyandotte. Presi-
dent McCready. Of the Old Dominion line
has also offered a reward Of $1,000 for the
arrest and conviction of the miscreant.
PREMIER DEPRETIs, in the Italian Cham
Der on the LIST, announced the complete de-
feat of the Italian forces and their allies
near Massowah. Great excitement fol-
lowed. the Chamber Immediately granting
credit of sl.OO0,OOO.
By the advice of counsel the Union Pa
cific Railroad Company has decided to
cease the issue of all complimentary passes
as soon as the Interstate Commerce bill
goes into effect. The decision applies to
every species of free travel.
THERE was panic on the Paris Bourse
on the list, caused by war rumors. Kcntes
fell but recovered later in the day.
QUEEN VICTORIA witnessed a theatrical
performance in the council chamber of the
palace at Osborne, recently, for the first
time since the death of Prince Albert.
THE Sultan of Morocco has refused to
sign commercial treaties with England,
France and Germany until the abuses arts
ing from the foreign protection of natives
are removed.
IT was reported that the Italians were de-
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the Soudan.
THE Paris newspaper II Temps refuses to
regard as serious the attacks of the Ger
due to the electoral game, the issue of
which will be the triumph of Imperialism
or parliamentarianism
NUMEROUS priests, jurists and other resi-
dents of Sligo, Ireland, have signed a pro-
test against the exclusion of Catholics from
the jury box. They ask their representa-
tives in the House of Commons to call the
attention of Parliament to the matter.
A DISPATCH from Rome says the consist
DRY will be held the 9TH of March, that the
Pope's allocution will affirm with increased
emphasis the principle of the temporal
power of the Church.
THE Queen of Belgium recently heard by
telephone the rendition of Faust at the
Paris Opera House.
THE Simla Undia) Bank has suspended.
Arrangements for voluntary liquidation
were made and it was expected depositors
would be paid in full.
THE Limerick Qreland) municipal coun-
Gil has refused to celebrate the Queens
jzbilee on the ground that the Queen has
visited Ireland only twice, and never as
sisted Irish charities.
KING GEORGE opened Parliament on the
Sd at Athens, Greece. In his speech he
said that at present the foreign relations of
Greece were normal, and on that account
the State was enabled to attend to it's home
affairs.
THERE was intense excitement on the
London Stock Exchange on the afternoon
of the Sd and at the close of the market Il
panicky feeling prevailed. The unfavor;-
bic state of the market was due chiefly to
the reports of heavy failures in the Paris
BOurse.
A LONDON cablegram lately said that even
if there should be no war between France
and Germany, the incidents which had
already happened in consequence of the
active rumors of war have created such q
marked feeling of distrust throughout the
country and so paralyzed every thing in the
way of commerce, industrial and financial
enterprise that it would take France at least
two years to recover the shock which she
had already received.
A SCHOOL house at st. EmoniGue, near
Montreal. Can, was destroyed by fire the
other night, and four young girls who were
in it persisted in the flames.